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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
— Tracy Chapman
There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
— Brandon Routh
When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.
— Robert Osborne
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
— George Papandreou
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
— Caitlin Moran
One thing I'd learned growing up: People were never, ever, ever 100 percent honest about their feelings.
Never. — Darynda Jones
Never. — Darynda Jones
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
— Sean Lennon
The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
— Gautama Buddha
I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
— Rita Ora
I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'
— Alan Ball
Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
— William Sloane Coffin
Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.
— Marisa Miller
I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
— Kaitlyn Dever
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe
As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.
— Prefuse 73
Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.
— Barry Sonnenfeld
Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.
— Andrew Galasetti
I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.
— Johnny Marr
Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.
— Meredith Brooks
I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.
— V V Brown
I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.
— Keiynan Lonsdale
Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.
— Brie Larson
All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.
— Alexander Wang
Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up
— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.
— Shane Koyczan
I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.
— ASAP Rocky
When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
— John Fusco
When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.
— Jerry Seinfeld
There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.
— Peter Higgs
There's something about growing up, about being in society and mixing with real people that restricts your imaginative powers.
— V.C. Andrews
One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.
— Art Alexakis
I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that.
— Graham Speechley
It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.
— Johnny Carson
I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
— Mae Whitman
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.
— Tom Perrotta
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching ... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
— Geoffrey Canada
Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money.
— Patrick Wolf
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
— Leo Buscaglia
The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.
— Ray Bradbury
Being a kid has always been about being watched.
— Lauren McLaughlin
I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
— Elizabeth Taylor
I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all the time, he's my favorite.
— Colin Kaepernick
Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.
— Daniel Johnston
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
— Jami Attenberg
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
— Paul McCartney
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
— Carol Burnett
When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
— Joe Morgan
I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
— Taylor Swift
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
— Sylvia Brownrigg
There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.
— Michelle Rodriguez
I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.
— Lily Tomlin
Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.
— Dylan O'Brien
I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.
— Brittany Snow
If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.
— Paul Gallico
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around ... and I'm not talking just about the government!
— Trevor Rabin
I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.
— Demetri Martin
There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.
— Duncan D. Hunter
Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
I didn't know much about golf growing up.
— Yogi Berra
Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.
— Robert Hilburn
I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
— James Dobson
To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.
— Graydon Carter
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
— Michael Nyqvist
Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.
— Louise Nurding
I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.
— Sarah Winman
She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
— Alice Hoffman
There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that
— Aya Kito
Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.
— Hope Solo
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
— Jonathan Tropper
He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.
— Lauren Oliver
Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.
— Daniella Alonso
When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.
— Will Durst
When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
— Cole Hauser
I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.
— Kenneth Logan
She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
— J.M. Barrie
Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke, the idea that boys might actually want you.
— Emma Cline
The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much
music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts. — Perrey Reeves
music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts. — Perrey Reeves
I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.
— Susan Pogorzelski
I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.
— Corey Johnson
Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.
— Charlotte Eriksson
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
— Lenny Kravitz
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. — Jodi Picoult
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. — Jodi Picoult
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
— Rob Sheffield
When Asian people grow up fast they go to college at 13. White people grow up fast it's about fudge packing and triple D's at 13.
— Adam Carolla
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
— Steven Strait
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
— Allison Janney
I'm sure it must have been even more wonderful then, when we were young and knew nothing about the pain of growing up.
— Yoko Ogawa